Trump's tariffs vs US economy

Japan says economy is recovering, but flags risks from Trump policies

The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Wednesday and warned of heightening global economic uncertainty, suggesting the timing of further rate hikes will depend largely on the...

Could Donald Trump’s tariffs cause a recession?

Investors are growing increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump’s tariff policies and federal layoffs could spark a US recession. An even bigger worry is that the Federal Reserve might...

High tariffs

The USA is proposing revising tariffs to 25 per cent, on products from México and Canada, and even China. There will be possible reciprocals. This will have repercussions for...

The situation

EU hits back at US with counter-tariffs

Even as US President Donald Trump imposed 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, the European Union (EU) hit back with tariffs on American goods like peanuts,...

Japanese PM plays his card well in US

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on his visit to Washington seems to have struck a pragmatic relationship with American President Donald Trump, who has been on an imposing-tariffs-on-allies spree....

New slogan

Trump's tariffs brought China and Mexico closer

The last time Donald Trump was president, he imposed a slew of tariffs on China that upended global trade. He’s threatening to do it again. Round One inadvertently pushed...

Greek peach producers hit by tariff war between US and EU

A tariff war between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) is threatening to buckle one of Greece’s most buoyant export sectors, which survived a decade of economic...